Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

The PSSG – it was first funded in 2022 via the Consolidated Appropriations Act – recognizes and awards funds to institutions that propose to use the grant for evidence-based reforms and practices in pursuit of bolstering student participation, retention, transfer, and completion rates. You do have public HBCUs, public TCUs, public MSIs.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Legacy admissions is a policy that grants preferences to the children of alumni. The policy has been particularly important in the Ivy League and other elite, private schools. But it ain’t what it used to be. It is not a racist policy. What is legacy admissions? We might also want to keep some perspective.

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MARCH 5, 2024

She said that it was important to authentically engage with and foster trust within the community one serves in by getting to know local people, using public transit, and shopping locally. “This lack of sense of belonging and the lack of culturally affirming spaces is a top reason why teachers of color leave the profession.”

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The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 17, 2024

Psychological safety is a sense of unconditional belonging that creates an ability to take risks, be vulnerable, and still be loved and accepted by one’s community. Some students become overstimulated or overwhelmed easily; if possible, provide students with an acceptable way to become re-regulated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Political violence in America is never, never, never acceptable in our democracy,” Biden said. We’ve staked our claim to being a powerful force – potentially the most powerful – in our Nation, and we mean to use that power for the good of our people.” “Our democracy is still at stake, don’t kid yourself.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2023

Supreme Court eliminated race-conscious admissions policies at the end of June, colleges and universities began preparing for the inevitable blow to their on-campus diversity. Had the UC system figured out the secret to maintaining diversity without using racial admissions preferences? After the U.S.

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Great College Advice

MAY 6, 2024

Schools in other countries will often use your AP scores to evaluate you for admission because they know that AP scores are standardized across the country. Some colleges or universities will accept a high AP score to satisfy a core requirement. The best way to know for sure what your college’s policies are is to call the college!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

For example, some states have banned books due to race and gender, which can put educators at odds with non-discriminatory policies. However, the complexities of education often get in the way of successfully advocating for Black students in a way that is impactful and transformative. GATE, Advanced Placement).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

“S o, it's important for a team or committee of people to look at the policies together in community and in conversation, so that they can then make the changes that are necessary." A lot of policies and practices are set up that we think have to stay in place because they have a legacy at our institution,” Carpenter said. “But

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

It is also an example where the media fails to independently assess the accuracy of claims, instead accepting the words of Washington insiders (the author of the HEA report is a former administrative official in charge of the College Scorecard data on which the report was based). The headline remains. Time to move on, I guess.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Evolution Liam Dacey, a 2004 graduate of University of Notre Dame (UND), one of the nation’s preeminent Catholic institutions, took steps to transfer after coming out his sophomore year, but changed his mind and instead became an advocate for LGBTQ visibility and acceptance on campus. Many HBCU institutions have church-based roots.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The increase, the Trevor Project suggests , stems from not only from the negative impact of COVID-19, but other risk factors like barriers to mental health care and a wave of new state policies affecting LGBTQ+ rights. In 2007, it became the first school in Kentucky to add gender identity to its non-discrimination policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Harvey Black Issues In Higher Education confronted the academy with the unpleasant but undeniable reality that higher education was complicit in supporting a society that was, through various policies and practices, intentionally separate and unequal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

On its cover page, the annual education issue of the New York Times magazine uses the sardonic headline, Not U, to capture the current attitude of parts of the country toward higher education. The headline is then followed by this intriguing subtitle: Why do more and more Americans think college isn’t even worth it?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I (Ford) was reading a commentary on the top number of “issues” facing education/ educators and became even more outraged and indignant on terminology used to describe children who live in poverty, Blacks, and other minoritized students. We are reminded of Upchurch’s ‘convicted in the womb’. d. High-stakes testing and evaluation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Greg Nayor In what has been another delay, ED announced last week that schools and agencies involved in financial aid will receive Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) information – which they use to determine student total financial aid offerings – until the first half of March.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

“These folks have clearly shown some interest in college-going,” said Dr. Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “If If you’re thinking about helping to equalize college enrollment, it may be easier to get them over the hurdle.”

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

But beyond the hype and enthusiasm there are enormous strategic policy decisions to be made, by governments, institutions, faculty and individual students. Critics argue that AI dehumanises the learning process, is incapable of modelling the very human behaviours we want our students to emulate, and that AI can be used to cheat.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 23, 2023

Buying a private-school education in the UK used to be enough to get into Oxbridge or at the very least become prime minister, but the tide may be (slightly) turning. Students who stayed at private schools for A-levels had an acceptance rate of 19% last year. Similar data from Oxford wasn’t available.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The QWERTY keyboard, by some accounts (not everyone agrees), may have been designed in the late 1800s to minimize jamming of high-use typewriter letter keys. But some academics are concerned that, by focusing on academic honesty and classroom innovation, the policies have one blind spot.

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College for Creative Study

OCTOBER 24, 2023

As an early adopter of AI as a resource tool, the College for Creative Studies (CCS) is the first AICAD (the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design) college in the United States to fully develop and implement an institution-wide artificial intelligence policy. As well as all other forms of culture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This includes low expectations from teachers or counselors about a student's ability to succeed in advanced classes, funding constraints for offering such classes, inadequate support for faculty development, and exclusionary policies like pre-requisites or grade cutoffs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Specifically, we argue (in the Journal of College and University Law and Penn State Law Review ) that courts should look to the academic freedom policies adopted by public colleges and universities, including those in Florida, in defining the First Amendment rights of faculty in carrying out their professional duties.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

“A student high in self-regulation (and low in procrastination) would probably accept flexibility because they know they can handle deadlines and attendance, but they would also accept a stricter regime because such a regime aligns with their own work habits,” he tells Inside Higher Ed. ” William S.

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Parchment

MARCH 24, 2023

Some higher ed experts see the move as a response to demand for a more comprehensive transfer management platform when some universities are using multiple, disparate digital tools to shepherd students through an already complex process. She said the wider the network of colleges using the platform becomes, the more useful it is.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean In improvisational comedy, the rule for the actors is “yes, and…” No matter what someone else in the scene does or says, your job is to accept it immediately and build on it. Motivated reasoning can be subtle enough that the people using it might not even be aware that they are.

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

So now for my reader’s question, which has two parts: First, if students in Florida take PSEO credits in Florida, are those college credits applicable only to Florida colleges, or will they be accepted elsewhere? Some more selective colleges may use PSEO credits only to waive prerequisites or for placement purposes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

To test some of that, we may use a pulse survey to really dive a little deeper.” We’re looking at how we create this inclusive and equitable environment using a social justice platform in order to positively impact various populations on campus,” says Davis. That’s the framework that we really use.” What are we seeing?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Image: A number of financial disincentives deter colleges from smoothly transferring students’ course credits from one institution to another, according to a new white paper by the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB), a group of experts dedicated to transforming the transfer process.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The CEW studied 25-to-64-year-old adults using five years’ worth of U.S. While this traditional job title is the most abundant and can guarantee acceptable wages without a degree, the majority of these workers (especially non-White men) are struggling. Census Bureau data from 2015 to 2019.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Effective transfer policies require collective action by both the sending and receiving institutions, including the fair treatment of all learners and all credits. VALUE: Do we enhance or devalue the program or degree if we accept all credit? There are too many broken links in the transfer chain.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Specifically, I learned about how certain intelligence tests were used to cast Black children as intellectually inferior to perpetuate stereotypes about their cognitive abilities, thus giving permission to treat those students differently. Conclusion Selecting, interpreting, and using tests are complicated endeavors. Dr. Edward C.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Of those, 715 participated in the vote, with 494 voting against a resolution generally supporting the policy changes, and the remaining 221 backing the resolution. “She used the word ‘disappointed’ in us, repeatedly—it was really weird,” he said. “That was a surprise,’ he said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

—About a decade ago, nearly all—97 percent—of IBM’s job advertisements required a four-year college degree, according to David Barnes, vice president of global workforce policy at the tech giant, who spoke this week at the annual SXSW EDU conference here. ‘Bad’ Policy No.

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Parchment

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Role of NACEP in Dual/Concurrent Enrollment NACEP is the first and only national organization that exists to support programs, practitioners, and policy to advance quality dual and concurrent enrollment. Many institutions have specific standards for accepting dual-enrollment credits, and low-quality programs may not meet these criteria.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

had already outlawed the use of race in their admissions long before this ruling. The socio-economic, disadvantaged scale really helps us put things in context. The direct impact of the SCOTUS ruling — how many fewer individuals of color have been admitted to medical programs this fall — is still unknown. But there are predictors.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer Knowing there is no easy way to “fix transfer,” the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB) seeks to tackle the complicated problems and hidden complexities associated with credit mobility and transfer.

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